Trivia: Spooky stations

[61653 HTAFC]

There's a thread discussing Southern's temporary renaming of Brighton to "Frighton" to mark Hallowe'en.

Leaving that thread for discussion of the rights and wrongs of such things, here's a trivia thread just for fun- which stations could be given a spooky rebranding, and which ones don't even need renaming?

A few to start off with:
Batley
Todmorden (not spooky in English, but is for our German-speakers)
Headbolt Lane is a new entry, of course!

Extra points to your Hogwarts House for particularly forced or cringe-worthy puns!

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Aberdare > Aberscare
London Euston > London Eustomb
Tonbridge > Skele-tonbridge
Redhill > Redhell (other "hills" available)
Ingatestone > Coff-ingatestone
Winchfield > Witchfield

 

[yorksrob]

Hell - ifield
Headcorn - Deadcorn
Gore - Ore

On another note, can we count:

Pluckley - reputedly serves the most haunted village in England
Liverpool Street - built on a plague pit

 

[Farigiraf]

Pumpking's Cross - King's Cross
Howl Wood - How Wood
Devils Road - Devons Road (DLR)
Skullthorpe - Scunthorpe
Peterborough (if anyone has changed trains there the name will send a chill down your spine )

 

[AlistairCowell]

Bearsden > Sleeping Den
Bellshill > Bells-hell
Carstairs > Madstairs
Maryhill (Glasgow) > Scaryhill

 

[Ted633]

Another for Redhill --> Dreadhill

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Pluckley - reputedly serves the most haunted village in England

Similarly Sudbury in Suffolk would be the station for Borley Rectory, once known as the "most haunted house in England"...

However the rectory itself burned down in the 1930s and the site is now used for bungalows. Residents of the hamlet understandably get a bit annoyed by tourists turning up at Hallowe'en.

A few others:
Werewolverton (or indeed Werewolverhampton)
 Gargrave
Elephantom & Castle

 

[duffield]

A few vaguely local ones:

Beaston.
Long Eaten.
(Gone for a) Burton
Utoxinter
Sighston, and Sigh-el-by.
(Long) Barrow-Upon-Saw
Fettering
(Dead) Man's Field
Noose-stead.
Hacknell.
Chapel-of-rest-town.
Damnall
Woodlouse (they're scary right?)
Kniverton Bridge

 

[Parallel]

The Looe Valley line is supposedly haunted, especially between Causeland and St Keyne, with Causeland being one of the most haunted stations in the country. Apparently the phone receives one of the the highest number of calls in Cornwall, but there is never anybody on the end of the line.

A paranormal investigation was carried out some time ago at Causeland station, which makes some interesting/entertaining reading:

Elliot Luxstowe's information was surprisingly specific, given the age and nature of the story. Commuters, tourists and locals have reported a few 'strange events' while waiting at Causeland Station, or while passing in cars, or the train itself.

Causeland Train Station / Looe Valley Line / Ghosts / From This Haunted Land

Link includes commentary from a paranormal investigation of Causeland station in Cornwall.

 

[rapmastaj]

Ghoul / Goole
Kingston upon Hell
Scareborough

Dunkeld & Birnam is the home of Birnam Wood, the forest that walked in Shakespeare's Scottish play.

Blackheath for the plague pits.

 

[DM352]

Matlock Bat
WhatStandHell
Wylde Grief
Bleak Street
Shenstoned

 

[GatwickDepress]

Leatherhead to Leatherface, the antagonist of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

 

[Class15]

Gospell Oak for the Harry Potter enthusiasts

 

[frodshamfella]

Hel sby perhaps ,

 

[norbitonflyer]

My brother, when small, called Goathland (on the North York Moors railway) "Ghostland".

 

[Intercity110]

the bodmin railway could be renamed to beastmin, to reference the oft-claimed but never found beast?

 

[CornishDave]

A couple I remember from a similar exercise last year:

Weston-super-Nightmare
Goring & Trick or Treatley
Castle Scarey

 

[BAFRA77]

Langley Scream
Sandwell & Deadly
Llandeadnow Junction

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Weston-super-Nightmare

It could be called that all year round to be fair...

 

[aliceh]

Some awful ones from here in Dorset...
Spooksdown, Mourn-mouth, Booooo-le, Scareham

 

[rapmastaj]

Green witch
Maiden dead
Steven mage
Blade Green

 

[syorksdeano]

Sheffield - maybe not a scary name but some bloody terrifying sights walking through the station

 

[RPI]

Castle Scary
Weston-Super-Scare
Hayle-Hell
Dreadruth

Exeter St Thomas is allegedly haunted by a woman in heels.

Bristol Temple Meads is also meant to be haunted by a female looking out of one of the windows above the main gateline.

 

[Springs Branch]

A lost, late-night traveller might get spooked when he stumbles across the Hall i'th' Wood.
Especially if the sole occupant is practicing Bach's Toccata and Fugue (= 'that Dracula tune') on the organ at the time.

BTW, with a Senior R/card it costs £8.30 for a single from Hag Fold to Old cRoan (Route: NOT PENDLE HILL)

 

[Pinus contorta]

Millom Station was originally called Holborn Hill. How about Hellburn Hill?

 

[Traveller54]

Gourock … Ghoulrock
Gorebridge … Gorybridge
Newcraighall … Newcraighell

 

[Pinus contorta]

Manchester Victoria is situated near to the Cathedral and the Hanging Ditch Bridge so you could rename it Hanging Bridge. I think part of the station was built on a cemetery so it may well be haunted.

 

[John Luxton]

What about Arley, Severn Valley? The station garden looked rather spooky last Sunday.

 

[rower40]

Road Access to Derby Etches Park depot is via Deadman's Lane, named after the nearby plague pit. Trufax.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Road Access to Derby Etches Park depot is via Deadman's Lane, named after the nearby plague pit. Trufax.

Not far from Berry Brow station is a lane curiously named "Deadmanstone".